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Or 12260

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Or 12260
Title:
Meʾirat ʿenayim by Isaac ben Samuel of Acre
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
137 folios (137+i)
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Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1300-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Isaac ben Samuel, c 1250-1350
יצחק בן שמואל, מעכו
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Or 12260

Meʾirat ʿenayim by Isaac ben Samuel of Acre

Contents

A kabbalistic supercommentary on the commentary of Nahmanides on the Pentateuch.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-7v
Title: Excerpt from a composition on Lurianic kabbalah

Running title: הקדמה.

Written by different, probably somewhat later hand.

ff. 8r-137v
Author: יצחק בן שמואל, מעכו Isaac ben Samuel, of Acre
Title: מאירת עינים
Title: Meʾirat ʿenayim

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end. Some folios are out of sequence: f. 108 to follow f. 117; ff. 109-117 to precede f. 8.

Diagrams on ff. 18r, 38v, 39r, 40v.

A few marginal notes; a manicula (f. 48v)

ff. 8r-61r
Title: On Exodus

The beginning of the commentary on Exodus is out of sequence, on ff. 116v-117v.

ff. 61r-82v
Title: On Leviticus
ff. 82v-96v
Title: On Numbers
ff. 96v-137v
Title: On Deuteronomy

Except ff. 108-117; these leaves are out of sequence and are on Genesis and Exodus.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 14th-15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Thick yellowish Oriental paper.
Extent: 137 folios (137+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 168 mm.
Dimensions (written): 185 × 127 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

14 quires: i6 (ff. 2-7), ii-xi10 (ff. 8-17, 18-27, 28-37, 38-47, 48-57, 58-67, 68-77, 78-87, 88-97, 98-107), xiiten, xiii-xiv10 (ff. 118-127, 128-138).

Catchword and signature at the end of the quires. Signatures are in Hebrew characters, first is on f. 17v = quire ו.

Condition

Worm damage, water damage, usage stains.

Front pasteboard is very damaged.

Some parts where the ink has washed away have been overwritten (e.g. ff. 25v-26r).

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 26

Written lines: 26

Ff. 2r-7v: layout is diffeerent from the rest of the manuscript: 2 columns, 39 written lines per page, runnign title.

Section headings are in larger, square script.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive and square script of the 14th-15th century.

Binding

Post-1600, quarter-bound, with leather spine and printed paper covers. In phase box.

History

Origin: 1300-1499 14th-15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription on f. 2r: לי לשמי והוא לבית הלחמי היו’ י"ץ.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 200; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 4 February 1928.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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